Wire mattress.



O. GASAU.

WIRE MATTRESS.

APLPLIOATION FILED our. 30, 1012.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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'110 GAEAU, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification 0 6 Letters Patent- .llnt outed Sept. 2. 15H 2;.

Application filed October 30, 1912. erial No. 728,693.

To (11/ ii /mm. it may wearer/i lie it known that l, O'r'ro (lasso, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, (borough of l$rool lyn), in the county of Kings and btalo of New York, have invented a new and improved i /ire lllatlress, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to wire mattresses having side guards to better retain the hair or felt mattress in position to prevent the latter mattress from becoming misshapen, and unduly spread at the sides.

It is a design of my invention to provide an improved form of side gi'uard, characterized in the preferred form by the provisimi oil? a novel arrangement of tensioning means, and further characterized by the adaptability of the side guards to be folded below the bottom of the mattress.

The distinguishing features of my inven-- tion and the important structural elements chacterizing the preferred embodiment which is illustrated. as an example, will be more particularly explained in the speciiic dc 'cription hereinafter given.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specitication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the vlews.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a mattress embodying my invention, parts being broken away; Fig. 2 is a detail View in longitudinal vertical section, adjacent the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail cross sectional view adjacent the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In fori'ning a mattress in accordance with the particular embodiment illustrated, end rails and 11 are provided for the head and foot of the mattress, the form of the rails shown being; of angle iron, as is usual With this class of wire mattress. The mattress bottom carried by said head and foot rails may consist of any form of open mesh fabric 12, and which desirably has wire metallic binding; strips 13. Yielding connection is made between the head and foot rails and the binding strips 13 by suitable springs, as for instance, by the closely coiled retractile springs li, having their hooked ends 15 received respectively in holes 16, 17, which are produced in the head and foot rails 10, 11, and in the metallic binding strips 13 respectively.

The described mattress bottom with its tensionine; means l t, is independent of the. side guards hereinafter described, which side guards are self-contained with respect to the rnumortiugr tl'illllt. thereof, mesh and tensioning means. Thus each side guard consists of a longitudinal sidebar 18 having bent ends or arms 18, the side bars thus being: essentially let-shaped, the ends it) desirably being rigi id and integral with the longitudinal bar 18. Thus the side bar and its U ends constitute an individual side frame for the side guards, and to the Said frame a strip of open mesh fabric 11$) is secured, the ends of the fabric preferably having metallic binding strips 20, and at each end of the guard the strip 20 is conneeted to the arms 18 by tension n'leans, preferably in the form of tightly coiled retractile springs 21 similar to those in the mattress bottom, the springs 21 having hooked end members 522 which are received in holes 23 and 2-11: formed in the strips 20 and the U arms 18 respectively. As shown, there are upper and lower springs 91 at each end of the side guards.

l prefer to mount the side frames so as to swing upward in position for use as shown in the drawings, or through approximately an arc of ltlt) degrees to project downward to give a more com mct form for shipping, and also to enable the side guards to be moved out of position, if not desired for use. Thus the bar .18 is mounted to rock in straps 25, which are return bent to form a bearing for the bars 18, the ends being brought to gethcr and secured to the end rail of the mattress bottom, as by bolts St; or equivalent means. It will be observed that the tensioning means 21 as well as the fabric 15) of the binding strips 20 all swing as a unitwith the frame bars 18, 18. To sustain the side guards in the upright position, a latch is provided at each end oil. each side guard. The latch may consist of an angle iron 27, pivoted as by a bolt 25;, the upturned end 29 of the latch being formed at an edge thereof with a notch 30 for passing over a headed latch stud 31. with which each U arm 18 of the guard frame is provided. The arrangement is such that the latch 27 may be moved on its pivot 95% to engage the end 27 with the latch stud or to disengage the latch. When the latch disengaged it will be obvious that the complete side guard may be turned downward through about 180 degrees to lie below the level of the mattress bottom. Also the bolt 28 may be removed and the latch 27 inverted and given such a position that its member 29 will project downward, the bolt 28 being used to secure the latch at any convenient angle to the end rail 10 or 11. V

In practice, the mattress frame, in addition to the end rails, includes as usual a longitudinal side bar at each side of the mattress, one of said bars being indicated at 85. In practice, the bars 85 will be supported by the usual hangers, a portion of one of which is indicated at 86.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 7

1. A mattress, comprising a mattress bottom, transverse end rails with which the mattress bottom is connected, rigid, longitudinally ranging bars disposed at the sides of the mattress bott m and pivotally mounted on the end rails to swing in the vertical plane, said bars being provided wit-h upturned, rigid end portions, fabric ranging longitudinally of the end bars between the up-turned end portions, and springs uniting said fabric with said Lip-turned end portions of the rigid longitudinal bars.

2. A mattress, comprising a mattress bottom, transverse end rails to which the mattress bottom is connected, rigid, longitudinally ranging bars disposed at the sides of the mattress bottom and independently of said bottom, said bars being pivotally mounted on the end rails to swing in the vertical plane, and longitudinal guard elethe fabric of the said sideguards.

4. A wire mattress, comprising end rails,

, a mattress bottom yieldingly connected with said end rails, and side guards each unconnected with the mattress bottom lncluding a rigid frame ranging longitudinally of the mattress between the end rails and a fabric yieldingly connected with said frame, the frames of the side guards extending to the said end rails and having support thereon.

5. A mattress, comprising end rails, a mattress bottom, and side guards each comprising a rigid frame independent of the mattress bottom and extending between said end rails at each side of the mattress, said rigid frames of the side guards each carrying within the same a fabric ranging longitudinally of the mattress and connected with the ends of said rigid frames by springs, the respective ends of the springs having connection with the fabric and the said ends of the rigid frames.

In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' OTTO GASAU.

Witnesses: 1 i

J. L. MOAULIFFE, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

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